Purchasing shake-up to save Post Office millions
2 April 2012
The Post Office is set to make savings of over 7 per cent, around £64 million, of its £1.2 billion procurement budget this year, according to its director of purchasing, Alan Jackson.
The savings will come through fuel hedging, increased centralisation of purchasing and the use of purchasing cards. “These are real savings,” Jackson told SM. “It’s not suppliers coming in with inflated prices and us knocking them down to a little above what we were always paying.”
The figures are the latest in a four-year purchasing drive that has so far saved...